Thursday, August 9, 2012

Fall-i-days Llama Blog Hop

The Stamping Llamas are planning a blog hop every month starting now through the holidays. You will be treated to gorgeous projects using products from the Stampin' Up! Annual and Holiday catalogs! I'm going to try and do one Christmas project for each hop as well as things for each of the Fall-i-days.

Back to School

My two favorite fallbacks for handmade teacher gifts are packaged cards and decorated hand sanitizer. Pretty + Practical = Perfect! I posted some monogrammed notecards here, but here is this year's version of something every elementary school teacher needs:

ChristmasWhen designing Christmas cards, it's good to think about how easy and cost-effective it will be to mass-produce the card. I like the challenge of making something that is simple, yet still gets an "oooooh" from the recipient! I made a few different versions of this card; do you have a favorite? Here, the first and most CAS version: single layer, just stamping and punching:

The second version has the snowflake image stamped in Versamark all over the background and embossed with Iridescent Ice powder for a little extra shimmer:

On this one, I created the look of a banner using the Simply Scored tool.

On this last version I used the Simply Scored to create a simple frame around the image:

Linda, these are wonderful projects! I love the hand sanitizer. And your Christmas cards are amazing. My mom saw the one from the swap and fell in love with it. She decided I should make that one of the Christmas Card Buffet options.

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